| Name of Colony | Date Founded | Reason for Colony’s Establishment | Founder | Primary Economic Base |
| Roanoke(Virginia) | 1587 | To establish themselves in NA | John White | N/A-did not last long enough |
| Jamestown(Virginia) | 1607 | To find gold and a water route to Asia | Captain John Smith | Tobacco |
| Maryland | March 25, 1634 | To create a place where English Catholics could go | Lord Baltimore | Tobacco |
| North Carolina | 1653 | Settled to provide a buffer line for the south | King Charles II | Tobacco |
| Charleston(South Carolina) | 1663 | Colony was given to farmers who had been kicked off carribbean islands | King Charles II | Tobacco |
| Georgia | April 21, 1732 | To re-settle English people in debt and poor people | James Ogelthorpe | Tobacco |
